How to Choose a Book Topic That Gets You Seen, Chosen and Well Paid

aka. How To Choose a Book Topic for IMPACTFUL Pros – Coaches, Trainers, Consultants & Independent Service Professionals   Most people who want to write a book don’t get stuck on writing. They get stuck much earlier. They get stuck at the question…  ...

My Favorite Business Growth Strategy for Coaches, Trainers, Consultants & Independent Service Professionals

  aka The Simpler Path to Becoming Seen, Chosen and Well Paid for Your Expertise     “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi I hate when people make me choose one. The question inevitably comes, usually in a tone of slight urgency:...

Business Thought Experiment #8 – Why Passion Is Not the Starting Point to Choose Your “Business Thing”

  "Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar." [“Traveler, there is no path; the path is made by walking”]  — Antonio Machado   I see it so often. Brilliant coaches, trainers, consultants, and independent service professionals frozen in business...

Business Thought Experiment #7 – Confidence in Business, Impact and the Next Obvious Step

    A coach I deeply respect recently asked a simple question: What is confidence? Rather than answer it intellectually, I decided to spend a month looking in that direction. What I discovered surprised me.   The more I looked, the less confidence...

Business Thought Experiment #6 – What Impact Remains When AI Can Do Almost Everything

  A question was posed recently that stayed with me: What impact can we have as human beings… that artificial intelligence cannot?   I’ve been sitting with that question. And I want to start from a place of non-fear. Because right now, there’s a lot of noise...

The Plan – Your Next Clients Online

The Plan – Your Next Clients Online

... aka where are your next clients going to come from online? The answer is wicked simple... ... a class. A webinar, you might ask? No... A simple class with no selling. No selling you might ask? It's not very probable that you sell your high-value services at the...

If I Had To Start Over In Business Today…

If I Had To Start Over In Business Today…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fonwa-NZpYk   If I had to start over, what would I do is the kind of question I get a lot from people like us - coaches, trainers, consultants and other professionals who have a business based on our knowledge. This time I got this...

Online Courses Versus Clients – What To Sell

Online Courses Versus Clients – What To Sell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93FGuuTMl4 What should I offer? Online courses? Intensive days? A membership site? Group programs? Or should I just enroll private clients? My answer... You can have it all with one elegant move. The problem with the question... The...

Have You Looked For New Clients Here?

Have You Looked For New Clients Here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So4fjqfTPnI   This is one of the question I get a lot from people like us who have a business based on their expertise - coaches, trainers, consultants, independent service professionals: Where are my clients hiding? Where can I...

Where Are Your Clients Hiding Online?

Where Are Your Clients Hiding Online?

I used to suspect that there was a secret place where I would find all my clients online... After all, the "gurus" seemed to know the place... If you don't know my story, I moved to the middle of nowhere in the German mountains when I married my dear German engineer...

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